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Anamaria Liriano

Integrated Bus Suggestions - 1 views

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    I was really excited to have come across this document. It is a primary source from the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), written shortly after bus segregation was deemed unconstitutional in 1956. The text reads as a list, for those who followed the MIA, on how to continue to act and conduct themselves in light of the recent changes to law. One line stands out, "Demonstrate the calm dignity of our Montgomery people in your actions." It makes me think of Ms. Parks in the image that was taken, and keeping in mind how it had been said before that she was of outstanding character, the quote resonates with me in that I see her as something of a model for everyone else to follow at the time.
Anamaria Liriano

Interview with Rosa Parks - 0 views

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    This is a short interview with Rosa Parks. In watching this interview, we are afforded the opportunity to hear from Ms. Parks herself as she gives her account of the day of her arrest. She gives the viewer a feel for the climate of things back then, though it is a more general rather than detailed idea. If anything, this interview adds life to the photo and is a chance for us to hear a firsthand account.
Anamaria Liriano

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott - 1 views

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    This website retraces the events of the day as pictured in the photograph. Not only does it go over the event in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, but it also discusses the bus strike of 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Details are also provided of the organization behind the strike, Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), along with a brief explanation of Dr. Martin Luther King's and Ralph Abernathy's involvement. There is also a short summary of the resulting court decision on segregated busing in 1956, along with an example of the sort of pamphlets that were circulated at the time to announce the bus strike back in 1955. This site serves to provide not only a brief, yet well rounded explanation of this photo's history, but gives us an understanding of who was behind the strike as well as what resulted from their effort.
Alexa Mason

Rosa Parks ignites bus boycot - History.com This Day in History - 12/1/1955 - 0 views

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    This website provides more context and background to the infamous moment on the Montgomery bus captured in the initial image shown. The lore states that Parks refused to give up the seat because her feet were tired after a long day of working but in reality, she was aware of plans of local activists to challenge the bus laws. Her arrest propelled the civil rights movement forward and resulted in a year long bus boycott. This website presents Rosa Parks angle differently than most others tend to. It's interesting to see her described as a part of the movement as opposed to someone who just happened to be somewhere.
Alexa Mason

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A Century of Segregation | PBS - 2 views

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    This webpage is presented by PBS. It is a part of series produced by the organization. This webpage is not explicitly about Rosa Parks but it is still very relevant. This webpage presents "A Century of Segregation". It provides incredible background information about the history of our country and monumental events that occurred prior to Rosa Parks and the subsequent bus boycotts. The tabs are presented on a timeline and each tab, when clicked, provides more information such as "March on Washington", "Ku Klux Klan" and "Jackie Robinson". It's important to look at such historical events within a historical context because very seldom are these events isolated.
Alexa Mason

Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience, December 1, 1955 - Jump Back in Time | ... - 0 views

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    This website presents a brief of overview of Rosa Parks historical arrest. During the civil rights movement Ms. Parks chose to sit in a seat on the bus that was not designated for black people. She chose to practice civil disobedience and assert what she felt was her right to be seated wherever she pleased. This website provides another image related to the initial class image, it is an image of her being booked for the crime that she committed. There is a lot to the story and this website gives information about what happened after that moment on the bus.
Alexa Mason

Five examples of civil disobedience to remember | Richard Seymour | Comment is free | t... - 0 views

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    This article provides the reader with five examples of civil disobedience. I think most people think about Rosa Parks and Gandhi when they think about civil disobedience but there's a long history, that continues today, of people practicing this method. It's important to recognize how powerful it can be. Gandhi's "Salt March" and industrial workers' sit-ins are two examples shared in this article. Civil disobedience is deeply woven into many cultures, not just our own. Civil disobedience can be expressed by the sheer presence of someone in a place that they don't belong, which we saw with Ms. Parks, which was also the case with the students who sat at the lunch counter and demanded to be served.
David Martinez

Rosa Parks - Encyclopedia - 0 views

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    This website talks about Rosa Parks humble beginnings ans how there were other supporters behind her who were willing to risk their lives to defending the cause. Some of these supporters were 'white.' Clifford and Virginia Durr, encouraged Rosa Parks to go to school and sponsored the long stay. This was the basis for learning who to strategically protest without being or using violence. Then, the real meaning is that Rosa Parks was the front person for other people who believe in equality, and the freedom of other. Rosa Parks endured a great deal of problems for her action, some of them legal, Rosa Parks violated the 'white law of segregation", but it was well worth it. The world benefited.
Roman Vladimirsky

Freedom Riders - 0 views

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    This website recalls the Freedom Riders. These people came after the Rosa Parks incident, however were partly inspired by Parks. These brave individuals would do things in protest such as go into white only bars or waiting rooms on purpose. This is what Rosa Parks did, inspire such behavior. The image is just the beginning and led to all of this.
Jacqueline Alley

The Class-Domination Theory of Power - 0 views

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    This article discusses the idea that those with money have power. The article explains how upper class went to private schools, held large banquets/tea parties, and think they are better than everyone and therefore know how to govern better. The upper class controlled large corporations through stocks. The articles defines the Power Elite, people who tend to dominate American policymaking. This group includes bureaucratic, corporate, intellectual, military, and government elites who control the principal institutions in the US. Their opinions and actions influence the decisions of the policymakers.
Alexa Mason

Photographs from the FSA and OWI - 0 views

  • Census records, real estate guides, and fire insurance maps draw a profile of the neighborhood in the 1930s. Situated at the southern end of the city's Yorkville District, the block was predominantly Italian, although many Irish and Poles lived on nearby East Side streets. The population grew during the decade, with most families living in rented three- or four-room apartments or in "rooming and lodging" houses built before 1900. Most buildings provided shared toilets and tubs, and nearly all residents had electricity or gas for cooking and lighting. Rents ranged from ten to fifty dollars per month. Residents either rode public transportation (a tramway ran parallel to East Sixty-first Street and the EL traveled along Second Avenue) or walked; few owned automobiles. A Roman Catholic church--identified as Our Lady of Perpetual Help on a 1934 map--adjoined a parochial school facing East Sixty-second Street. Many small businesses served the neighborhood, and a few larger concerns like warehouses and a laundry that served a citywide clientele.11
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    This webpage is from the Library of Congress. It includes twenty photographs taken by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. The photographs portray a New York City block in the 1930s. According to the Library of Congress, the census and real estate guides to place the block within a historical context. The webpage describes not only Evans' career and photography style but the analysis of the subject, this particular New York City block, provides the reader with background such as the types of households, tenants and businesses that occupied this neighborhood during this time.
Jacqueline Alley

Conflict in America During the Great Depression - 0 views

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    This site explains the relationship of the wealthy and poor during the 1930s. When the Great Depression began, the lower class people who lost their jobs sold what they could to get buy, even their houses. The wealthy were able to buy homes, land, and even stock for very low prices, which only made them richer. Lower class fought for tax changes to balance the nation's wealth.
David Martinez

Hungry Times In America - 1 views

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    This link tells a bit about the American photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) who was best known for his photographs of American life between the world wars. Everyday objects and people-the urban and rural poor, abandoned buildings, storefronts, street signs, and the like-are encapsulated in his laconic images of the 1930s and 1940s.
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    What an honor it is to have someone donate money to name a academic department on your name. It is well known that Walker Evans did so much for the world, and if I am right in recalling, I can perhaps paraphrase was Evans said: 'Art lasts a long time, but the period of time that exposes the art, does not last long." What a profound meaning this statement has. And, indeed, Ms. Burroughs' picture has lasted a long time and now it is a part of history that tells us about an economical depression in the 1930s that is relevant to us. This picture will never leave our heads. Evans provided the world with so much insight in exposing "hungry times."
David Martinez

RA (Resettlement Administration) - 0 views

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    This photograph was taken at the time the United States government had created the RA (Resettlement Administration) program which consisted of moving farmers to a 100,000 acre piece of land to improve the living conditions of the sharecroppers. This program was sponsored by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) by the U.S. in order to help the American farmers during the harsh "great depression." The Burroughs' were a part of the resettlement.
David Martinez

Facial Expression! - 0 views

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    This website shows the face of Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs. And, by just looking at her, we can see that first of all, she is not happy. Her face is thin, her chin is long, and the circles around her eyes show a sense of tiredness. Her yes say such much more than they can say. A hopeful woman in desperate times.
David Martinez

A picture really is worth more than one thousand words! - 0 views

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    A picture really is worth more than one thousand words. This photograph represents the "great depression" of the 1930s. It is so relevant to history because it shows the spirit and the sadness that this historical period left in the regular American citizens. Looking at Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs we can deduce that "hard times" were present at the time. The American economy had plummeted to the bottom and there were no jobs, therefore, hardly anything to eat. This picture is so representative of a bad economic time.
Anamaria Liriano

Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression - 0 views

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    This is a pretty cool source, it is a series of interviews of people who lived through the great depression. The first interview in particular is of a man who grew up living in a sharecropping community. I've said it before but to be able to read the account of those who lived through a particular event really brings to life what we read about. In these interviews you hear about how hard life was for so many.
Jasmine Wade

How Republicans Are Denying Health Care To Millions Of Poor Black People And Single Mot... - 0 views

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    This site has statistical information concerning the many categories of people in the U.S. that are phased by the refusal by the Republican party to implement the Affordable Care Act throughout the whole country. It gives insight as to why the excluded states are left with citizens unable to receive healthcare from any source. Race, poverty, and location plays a role in how many in the country are harmed by this political decision. People living in stated excluded from the ACA have nowhere to turn for health care when they have employment, such as being a cashier, retail sales clerk, or waitress, that does offer health coverage to employees. This picture, after some time observing, makes me think possibly dental care could be helpful or simply a doctor to detect a malnutrition.
Jasmine Wade

What is a slum? - Homeless International - 0 views

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    This site has two subsections in the About Slums section that 1)give information about what slums are and describes three characteristics of the slums and 2)the impacts that the slums have on 11 topics, including women education, political exclusion, and disasters. I simply think this link connects to this week's photo because looking at this person I imagine they would live in very poor living conditions, so "slums" in the term I searched.
Jasmine Wade

Poverty Facts and Stats - Global Issues - 0 views

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    This page includes graphs and charts of data from 2005. Also, the page is one large list of statistics relating to daily spending, global income, children's health and mortality, problems concerning water availability and cleanliness, and U.S. spending on various goods. Again, looking at the photo, I think this link sheds light on how the many different global, national, individual financial facts are caused by and are the causes of such factors as unsafe and unsanitary living conditions, poor health care, or unsatisfactory education.
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